We compare assimilation and respiration rates, and water use strategies in four divergent ecosystems located in cold-continental central Siberia and in semi-arid southern Africa. These seemingly unrelated systems have in common a harsh and highly seasonal environment with a very sharp transition between the dormant and the active season, with vegetation facing dry air and soil conditions for at...

introduction ophthalmomyiasis is a rare disorder that is caused by invasion of dipterous larvae to necrotic tissues. case presentation an 80-year-old woman with invasive basal cell carcinoma (bcc) presented anabnormal growth of worm in her eye. she had ophthalmomyiasis caused by lucilia sericata larva in here nucleated eye. l. sericata is common all over the temperate and tropical regions, main...

Manuscript received: August 2001 Editor: John Roddick INTRODUCTION Computer viruses have become a fact of life. Once a rarity, the increasing use of networks and network applications, such as email, has resulted in their rapid dispersion after creation. Their increasing prevalence is providing data that can be analysed to obtain information and devise models on rates of infection, spatial dispe...

The experiment was carried out in a factorial arrangement with the base of randomized complete block design in three repetitions. The first factor consisted of 11 bed for eating worm and the second factor is the different seasons (spring and autumn) respectively. Traits was including number of capsules (Coconut), the number of adult worms, the number of immature worms, live worms masses (mg), m...

This article presents a new definition of t-entropy that makes it more explicit and simplifies the process of its calculation.